Amstrad CPC : my first computer. That's why this site is dedicated to it and to the others Amstrad computers : Amstrad PCW, Amstrad NC Notepad and Amstrad PDA600
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Category : web site
One of the most waited games The Shadows of Sergoth is available as today in no less than 3 languages : french, spanish and english. It's a dungeon crawler game for Amstrad CPC 6128.
One of the programmers, Chris94, did 2 videos of the making off (french with english subtitles) :
Source : CPCWiki
Category : game
Announced in April 2016 by ESP Soft, Galactic Tomb is now available, with music by McKlain.
Source : CPCWiki
Category : game
I saw on Amstrad.ES that Tomas Penalver wrote El Concurso (adventure game). This time still in 2017, he also wrote a platform game : Try to run away.
Source : Twitter
Category : game
Arcade Game Designer v0.6 is a windows x64 utility by Jonathan Cauldwell to write games for Timex/Next, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC, without any knowing of programmation. It also exist directly on these platforms.
There is a forum about AGD.
Source : CPCWiki
Categories : development - game
Doragasu started a project in January 2017 about a ROM board interface with DMA transfert. The project is now a reality :
Source : CPCWiki
Category : hardware
iMPdos Public Edition v1.17 by AST/iMPACT is available, a ROM for using the X-Mass extension card made by Toto. It must be installed as ROM 1 to 6, before the ROM 7 ! When the ROM is installed, iMPdos detects the X-Mass and format it. Dont forget to use the |hlp command for documentation.
Source : CPCWiki
Piko Interactive just released on Steam nine games including the Great Escape (Ocean Software in 1986) and Elf which was released two years ago on Amstrad CPC. Actual prices will be valid only for the first week.
Source : Twitter
Category : game
The first issue of 2018 of the Kilobyte Magazine is available online. It's about 8bit computers, without Amstrad CPC specific content. You can also download the PDF version on Google Drive.
Source : Twitter
Category : fanzine, newspaper
A new version of the desktop JavaCPC is available. It's an Amstrad CPC(+) emulator written in Java by Markus Hohmann (DevilMarkus).
Source : CPCRulez
Category : emulator
Caprice Forever v2018-04 by Frédéric Coste is a modified version of the Caprice emulator (by Ulrich Doewich) for windows.
Source : CPCRulez
Category : emulator
Captain Space Debris is an Amiga original music written by Markus Kaarlonen, which was adapted on Amstrad CPC by BSC for the demo Digital Orgasm by Prodatron. So Vincent GR mixed both of them but even if there is a Youtube video of the mix, he prefers that you listen to the soundcloud version due to audio and video compression.
Source : Youtube
Category : music
An interesting reading of Baba's Palace by Rafael Castillo and McKlain that I invite you to read.
Source : Twitter
Category : game
4mhz has announced a new Amstrad CPC game : Lady Phoenix (see also IndiedRetroNews). It's a shoot them up game with nice graphics by Sad1942 and music by McKlain on Soundcloud.
Source : Twitter
Category : game
4mhz has announced a new Amstrad CPC game : Malasombra (see also IndiedRetroNews). It's a platform game with graphics by LordFredPixel and music by McKlain on Soundcloud (menu music).
Source : Twitter
Category : game
4mhz has announced a new Amstrad CPC game : Operation Alexandra (see also IndiedRetroNews). It's a platform game with nice graphics. The music of Operation Alexandra by McKlain is on Soundcloud.
Source : Twitter
Category : game